Proverbial Wisdom

Express the idea behind each of these proverbs using different words as much as you can.

337. Fashion too often makes a monstrous noise,
Bids us, a fickle jade, like fools adore
The poorest trash, the meanest toys.

Peter Pindar (1738-1819)

Odes to the Royal Academicians, XI

338. The bitter goes before the sweet. Yea, and for as much as it doth, it makes the sweet the sweeter.

John Bunyan (1628-1688)

Pilgrim’s Progress (Timorous), Pt II

339. Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law.

Oliver Goldsmith (1728-1774)

The Traveller, line 386

340. There smiles no Paradise on earth so fair
But guilt will raise avenging phantoms there.

Felicia Dorothea Hemans (1793-1835)

The Abencerrage, Can. 1

341. Help refused
Is hindrance sought and found.

Robert Browning (1812-1889)

Ferishtah’s Fancies, Two Camels

342. Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.

Edmund Burke (1730-1797)

On the French Revolution